Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Knowledge Acquisition, Representation,
Processing, and Automatic Extraction esp. connected to NLP
Compression of Conceptual Information and Efficient Conceptual Search
Computer Assisted
Language Learning (CALL)
2009-2011 - Leader of EVTIMA "Efficient Search of Conceptual Patterns
with Applications in Medical Informatics", grant DO-02-292 with the
Bulgarian National Science Fund;
2005-2007 - Steering Committee Member and Principal investigator in the
project BIS-21++ Center of Competence
FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2, dealing with Knowledge-Based
Systems;
2005 - Contractor of MLCF-CT-2004-013233, a FP6 Marie Curie Large
Conference Grant for RANLP-2005, with the European Commission;
2001-2004 - Principal investigator in the project BIS-21 Center of Excellence
ICA1-2000-70016, dealing with HLT for German and Bulgarian
in WP4;
2003 - Contractor of the FP5 IST Conference Grant for RANLP-2003, with the
European Commission;
2001-2003 - Coordinator of Balric-Ling (IST-2000-26454);
2001 - Contractor of HPCF-2000-00329 EuroConference RANLP-2001, with the European Commission, DGXII, Human Potential Programme,
High Level Scientific Conferences;
1998-2001 - Scientific
coordinator of LARFLAST (Learning Foreign Language Scientific
Terminology) , a Copernicus'98 JRP funded by the
European Commission.
For information about past projects check my CV.